During the 1925 NFL season, the Maroons played a game against the top college football team, a group of All-Stars from the University of Notre Dame.

[4] The Maroons' victory over the Irish ensured that the NFL now had the credibility to exist on equal standing with college football.

Unfortunately, the game resulted in the Maroons being stripped of their NFL title due to a disputed rules violation.

In addition to his brief managerial career, Berry was the football coach at Grove City College for five seasons in the 1930s.

In fact, he is the only man to have officiated the World Series, the NFL Championship and the College All-Star game in one year.

"[5] Bill Haller, who worked as an AL umpire from 1961 to 1982, recalled that Berry was his boyhood hero and inspiration to pursue umpiring, even though growing up in Lockport, Illinois he never met him in his youth: "Berry went to school with the father of my best friend, Jack Ernst.

He died of a heart attack at his son-in-law's home in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 69, after suffering a stroke three months earlier.